Night Tremors - Matt Coyle [Oceanview]
The Killing Kind - Chris Holm [Mulholland]
The Child Garden - Catriona McPherson [Midnight Ink]
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny [Minotaur/Sphere]
What You See - Hank Phillippi Ryan [Forge]
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Concrete Angel - Patricia Abbott [Polis]
Past Crimes - Glen Erik Hamilton [William Morrow]
New Yorked - Rob Hart [Polis]
Bull Mountain - Brian Panowich [G.P. Putnam's Sons/Head of Zeus]
On the Road with Del & Louise - Art Taylor [Henery]
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Long and Faraway Gone - Lou Berney [William Morrow]
Gun Street Girl - Adrian McKinty [Seventh Street/Serpent's Tail]
Little Pretty Things - Lori Rader-Day [Seventh Street]
Young Americans - Josh Stallings [Heist]
Stone Cold Dead - James W. Ziskin [Seventh Street]
BEST CRITICAL OR NONFICTION BOOK
The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story - Martin Edwards [HarperCollins]
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald - Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors [Arcade]
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime - Val McDermid [Grove]
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett - Nathan Ward [Bloomsbury USA]
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For - Kate White, editor [Quirk]
BEST SHORT STORY
BEST SHORT STORY
"The Little Men: A Bibliomystery" - Megan Abbott [MysteriousPress.com/Open Road]
"The Siege" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dec 2015 - Hilary Davidson [Dell]
"Feliz Navidead" Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule - Brace Godfrey/Johnny Shaw [CreateSpace]
"Old Hands" Dark City Lights - Erin Mitchell [Three Rooms]
"Quack and Dwight" Jewish Noir - Travis Richardson [PM]
"Don’t Fear the Ripper" Protectors 2: Heroes - Holly West [Goombah Gumbo]
BEST ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION
Safe Inside the Violence - Christopher Irvin [280 Steps]
Protectors 2: Heroes- Stories to Benefit PROTECT - Thomas Pluck, editor [Goombah Gumbo]
Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List - Todd Robinson, editor [CreateSpace]
Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015 - Art Taylor, editor [Down & Out]
Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds - Kenneth Wishnia, editor [PM]
BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Need - Joelle Charbonneau [HMH Books for Young Readers]
How to Win at High School - Owen Matthews [HarperTeen]
A Madness So Discreet - Mindy McGinnis [Katherine Tegen]
The Sin Eater’s Daughter - Melinda Salisbury [Scholastic]
Fighting Chance - B.K. Stevens [The Poisoned Pencil]
Ask the Dark - Henry Turner [Clarion]
BEST CRIME FICTION AUDIOBOOK
Dark Waters - Chris Goff - Assaf Cohen, narrator [Crooked Lane]
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins - Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher, narrators [Penguin Audio/Random House Audiobooks]
Causing Chaos - Deborah J. Ledford - Christina Cox, narrator [IOF Productions]
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny - Robert Bathurst, narrator [Macmillan Audio]
Young Americans - Josh Stallings - Em Eldridge, narrator [Josh Stallings]